Word: zeal
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There are all kinds of reasons why the Duke rape case landed center stage two months ago and has stayed there ever since. In the early days, Mike Nifong, the prosecutor who was up for reelection on May 2 (he won) was accused of an excess of zeal, not to mention an obsession with media visibility, in the days leading up to the arrest of two members of the Duke Lacrosse team...
Four of Harvard’s most successful wrestlers last season competed in the University Nationals hosted by Northwestern University last weekend, driven by the zeal to improve their skills on the mat even in the off-season. Looking to use this opportunity as a springboard going into next season, junior tri-captains Bode Ogunwole and Max Meltzer, junior Robbie Preston, and sophomore Bobby Latessa all competed in the tournament, which served as the qualifying event for the World University Championships, where wrestlers face some of the world’s best competition. Finalists in the tournament also qualified...
...carnage to find heroes, and the makers of the 9/11 films have found a few. Clarke, in Against All Enemies, is the lonely sentinel begging a smug, slow-witted establishment to take al-Qaeda seriously. He's Frank Capra's Mr. Smith after 30 years in Washington, his stubborn zeal intact. Another species of hero is the lucky survivor; and as Schindler's List was not about the nearly 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis but about 1,100 who escaped, so World Trade Center focuses on two of the last victims evacuated alive after the big buildings collapsed...
...REUVEN FRANK, 85, wry, trailblazing TV news producer; in Englewood, N.J. In a radio-influenced era in which TV news often meant anchors reading headlines, the NBC News president made the most of the new medium, infusing such protégés as Tom Brokaw and Linda Ellerbee with his zeal for compelling storytelling that let pictures shine. Among the Emmy winner's best-known innovations was pairing two anchors in The Huntley-Brinkley Report whose lively pacing, witty asides and hokey sign-off ("Goodnight, David," "Goodnight, Chet") are credited with changing the style of TV news...
...house at Stornoway, only to attract titters from Canadian sophisticates at the pictures of him politely shaking his son's hand. Conservatives maintain the public will warm to Harper. "He's going to bring a different tone at the top, a tone of respect and a different kind of zeal and energy about the country," says former Alberta Treasurer Jim Dinning. For now, he has already telegraphed change in five big areas...